Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 98

Chapter 90

Sheila stepped into the room.

She walked over to the bedside, her expression etched with worry as she glanced at Henry. "Jessica, is Henry alright?"

Jessica knew Sheila could read sign language, so she skipped typing on her phone and signed directly.

"It's appendicitis, but he's okay now. The surgery's done."

"How did he get appendicitis all of a sudden?"

Jessica shook her head.

Sheila's face softened with sympathy. "Poor thing, must have been so painful for him."

Sheila pulled up a chair and sat down next to Jessica.

Jessica frowned, her mind drifting.

Timothy had suddenly started doting on her, buying her cake, acting unusually close, and upending one of her long-held suspicions.

so much, she

her heart

aunt, but since they were the same age, they never acted like aunt and nephew. That strange lack of boundaries made it awfully hard for

and Sallie had dropped hints about Sheila

uninvited,

reminder of

ask Sheila outright—just to get the

first appeared before her, in both words and actions, she'd seemed

between Sheila and Timothy, would Sheila ever admit it? And if word got back to Timothy, it would only make things

herself on

because she was so conflicted inside, desperate to know the truth, that she even felt the

tamped it down and sat quietly, not

however, broke

out of danger now. You've been up all night-why don't you go

I'm not tired. You, on the other hand, just got off a long flight and

"Actually, Jessica, there's something you should know. Last time Henry had a fever, the nurse who gave him the injection was his classmate's mother. He asked me to pretend

finish, but her

Jessica got the message.

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